FILM: Screening of the Chris Ballew Incident

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On the evening of November 9, 2017, Chris Ballew was at a gas station in Altadena, CA. Ballew, a black man and an assistant marketing director for a firm in Southern California, exited his white Mercedes to fill the tank. The events that followed were captured on video by someone who happened to be there and happened to have a cell phone.

All across this country, cell phone videos and police cam footage capture experiences that people of color, and particularly black and brown men, have been reporting for decades.

Christopher Ballew’s experience has now been chronicled and produced in a film by James Farr. Film maker Farr presents an in-depth interview of Ballew’s attorney, John Burton, and provides a moment-by-moment analysis of what took place on the night of November 9, 2017.